Tag: 2013

Hot Docs: The Ghosts In Our Machine – Liz Marshall

  Jo-Anne McArthur is a talented and passionate photographer with a determination and drive rarely seen in people at all, let alone in someone so young.  McArthur is also an activist, and uses her photographic skills to document and share her empathetic view of animals in captivity.  From the appalling conditions of slaughterhouses and factory…

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ReelWorld: La Playa D.C. – Juan Andres Arango

  Tomas (Luis Carlos Guevara) and his troubled younger brother, Jairo (Andres Murillo), live with their mother (along with her current partner and their baby) in the sprawling city of Bogota, Colombia. Despite losing their father in the small but violent, drug and war-torn village of Buenaventura on the country’s Pacific coast, neither boy has…

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Reel World Film Festival 2013

  As luck and extreme good fortune would have it, I will be covering the Reel World Film Festival for the first time this year!  Since Tim will be in freaking Bermuda (that’s my new name for it) covering their festival and passing out drunk on a beach somewhere, I’ll be taking on this one…

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Canadian Film Festival – The Disappeared: Shandi Mitchell

This latest offering in the amazing line-up at this year’s Canadian Film Festival is The Disappeared. Written and directed by Shandi Mitchell, the film offers up an acting tour de force from every one of its six main players (Billy Campbell, Ryan Doucette, Brian Downey, Shawn Doyle, Gary Levert, and Neil Matheson).  The journey these…

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TIFF Next Wave 2013: Ghost Graduation – Javier Ruiz Caldera

Attention Toronto film fans!!!  Thanks to TIFF’s Next Wave Film Festival, you will have another opportunity to catch one of my Top 12 Films of 2012 on the big screen one more time!!!  I was lucky enough to see this one premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, and I can’t rave about…

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